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'50 the holes Z in the enlarged ends Z of the arms UNITED STATES PATENT,-

HEINRICH B AATHS, OF APPLETON, WISCONSIN. 1

(PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent 287,720, dated'October 30, 1383.

Application filed March 26, 1883. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEINRICH RAATHS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Appleton, in the county of Outagamie and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft-Attachments for Plows, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact. description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, in which Figure 1 represents a side view of a plowbeam with my improvements attached; and Figs. 2, 3, 4a, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 are detail views of the parts of the construction.

My invention relates to improvements in draft attachments for plows; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed, out'in the claims.

A represents a plow-beam of ordinary construction, to the rear end of which a plow (not shown in the drawings) is secured, in the usual manner.

Hrepresents an evener supported by means of a plate, I, and pivoted by a bolt, a, to the lower face of the beam A, and provided with hooks J at its ends.

F represents the upper half of the clevis, bolted to the upper face of the beam A, near its outer end, and provided witha hole, b.

G represents the lower half of the clevis, bolted to the lower face of the beam A, near its outer end, and provided with a hole, 0.

B represents a frame composed of the horizontal bar h, provided with the threaded hole d at its middle, and the downwardly-bent arms vided with a central orifice, Z.

. D represents a threaded vertical bolt, which passes through the holes I c in the upper and lower halves,;F G, of the clevis, and also through the threaded liole din the frame B, and is prowhich it may be readily turned, and a nut, 12, at its lower end,to retain it in place.

0 represents a threaded bolt provided with an eye, O, at one end, by means of which it may readily be turned to the right or left when 6, and also through nuts m, and is retained in place by the nut 0 Each nut m is enlarged at its lower end and formed into an eye, E, the plane of the eye E being at right angles to the nut m. 1 Through the eyes E pass the rods L M, the eyes supporting the rods. The rods L M are curved at their forward ends, as seen at 0, and the end of the curve 0 is turned out at right angles to the curve 0, as shown at 0 to prevent the curve 0 'from'slippingout of the slots in the end of the traces of the horses to which they are attached. The opposite ends of the rods L M are provided with hooks 0, which engage with hooks k k, on the bifurcated ends 6 5 of the rods K, provided each, on its inner end, with'a hook, 7;, which engages with .a hook, J, on one end (if the evener H... a If desired, the two innen rods-may be crossed.

lt'will be seen from the above described construction that by turning the rod 0 in either direction the eyes .E, through which the trace-rods L L M'M pass, will be moved to the right or left, as desired,-,tl1us widening or narrowing the width of the furrow-cut. By reason of the frame B being swiveled t0 the beam, should the plow strike an obstruction, the evener H is moved to the right or left, and

with it the entire frame B, with its attach- 'LL M M, the bifurcated rods K, and-jthe hooked whiffletrees, the trace-rods can readily be removed, and the two outer nuts, m m,

screwed by hand as far out as possible on the threaded boltG, and the two other nuts as far in as possible on the', bolt O, .-and the ,tracerods then inserted in'the eyes E, when, by. attaching the weaker horse to the trace-hooks farthest out he will have'less to pull, having more leverage than the strongerhorse, at-

tached to the tracehooks brought nearer the middle of the draft attachment.

It will be observed that the nuts m, carrying the eyes E, can be turned up at an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees, so that the eyes, instead of lying under the threaded bolt 0, will be directly over it, when, by inserting the trace-rods in position in the eyes E, the line of draft will be materially changed, and the depth of the furrow also varied.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A draftattachment consisting of the frame B, the screwfl, the eye-nuts m E, and the trace-rods L M, the frame being adapted to be swiveled to the end of the beam, and the rear ends of the trace-rods connected to an evener on the under side of said beam, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with the beam A, provided with a clevis, of the frame 13, threaded bolt 0, nuts on, having eyes E, and jointed trace-rods L M, substantially as shown and described, whereby the width of the furrowcut may be widened or narrowed, as set forth.

3. The combination, with beam A, having a clevis, F G, of the frame 13, swiveled to the clevis, and provided with the depending arms 25 0, having orifices l in their lower ends, threaded bolt 0, nuts m, having eyes E, jointed tracerods L M, bifurcated rods K, having hooks k k, and evener H, substantially as shown and described, whereby the point of the plow is 30 carried around the obstruction, as set forth.

4. The combination, with the beam A, having a clevis, F G, of the frame 13, provided with a threaded hole, d, of the threaded bolt D, passing through said hole, and the clevis- 35 threaded bolt 0, eye-nuts m E, trace-rods L M, and evener H, substantially as shown and described, whereby the depth of a furrow may be varied, as desired.

H. RAATHS.

Vitnesses:

J. M. WEIsBRoD, H. \V. LEACH. 

